{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "kind": "shortening-method",
  "format": "agent-skill",
  "id": "prose",
  "name": "Clear prose",
  "category": "Writing",
  "summary": "Rewrite a passage more tightly while keeping its content and voice.",
  "use_cases": [
    "Articles and essays",
    "General explanations",
    "Personal writing"
  ],
  "word_count": 117,
  "url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/prose/",
  "instructions_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/prose/SKILL.md",
  "skill_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/prose/SKILL.md",
  "json_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/prose/llms.txt",
  "plain_text_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/prose/prompt.txt",
  "license": "MIT",
  "sources_url": "https://sho.rten.it/sources/#prose",
  "skill_name": "prose",
  "skill_description": "Rewrite a passage more tightly while keeping its content and voice. Use for Articles and essays, General explanations, Personal writing.",
  "agents_md_url": "https://sho.rten.it/methods/prose/AGENTS.md",
  "sources": [],
  "instructions": "Edit the supplied prose for clarity and economy. Preserve its meaning, voice, point of view, and level of formality. Keep qualifications, evidence, and distinctions that affect the argument.\n\nReplace wordy phrases with direct language. Remove repetition, empty introductions, and transitions that add no connection. Prefer concrete subjects and verbs. Combine choppy sentences when they express one thought; split sentences when their structure hides the point. Vary sentence length enough to keep a natural rhythm.\n\nRetain useful examples, imagery, and deliberate emphasis. Do not flatten personality into generic business language. Preserve quotations and technical terms unless asked to change them. Do not add claims or strengthen certainty. Return only the revised passage unless the user requests an explanation.",
  "example": {
    "context": "Reflective first-person garden prose",
    "before": "At the end of a long day, the garden offers me a place where I can slow down and take a moment to notice the small changes that have happened since yesterday. The beans have climbed another inch up the cane, and rain has collected in the chipped blue bowl beneath the tap. I do not mean that tending a garden makes every worry disappear. It gives me a brief pause from them, which, on some evenings, is enough. I usually leave the phone indoors so that the pause can remain a pause.",
    "after": "After a long day, the garden lets me slow down and notice what has changed since yesterday. The beans have climbed another inch; rain fills the chipped blue bowl beneath the tap. Gardening does not erase every worry. It offers a pause, which some evenings is enough. I usually leave my phone indoors to let the pause remain a pause.",
    "must_preserve": [
      "First-person reflective voice",
      "Beans climbed another inch; chipped blue bowl under tap holds rain",
      "Garden offers a pause, not a cure for worries",
      "Some evenings that is enough; not universally",
      "Phone usually left indoors; deliberate repeated pause preserved"
    ],
    "omitted": [
      "Removes wordy framing while retaining imagery, the qualification about worry, and the deliberate final repetition."
    ],
    "kind": "illustrative"
  }
}